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May 2014

May 12, 2014

Porn again — Facing denial in conservative pews

The Rev. Heath Lambert usually hears one of two responses when he tries to get...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

Baptists rethinking the use of catechisms (plural)?

This joke may be the most famous in all of Baptist humor. While crossing a...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

Lessons learned by professional church spies

The first thing Chuck Lawless noticed when he entered the church foyer was that the...

August 2013

August 12, 2013

Protecting church flocks from real killers

It was a Saturday morning and the Rev. Jaman Iseminger had just dropped by to...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Goodbye to a radical Baptist patriarch

The old Southern preacher had walked through many airport security gates using his cherry-wood cane...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

Woodstock sinks into sexual ethics in America

Back in 1969, the same year as Woodstock, Gallup Poll researchers asked Americans this moral...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

What Baptists can learn from craft beers

It would be hard to imagine a vision of Baptist life edgier than the one...

July 2012

July 09, 2012

Thundering new voice for Southern Baptists

A New Orleans preacher, preaching to a New Orleans crowd, can expect a few "Amens!"...

February 2012

February 06, 2012

T.D. Jakes and the Trinity

For more than a decade, Pentecostal Bishop T.D. Jakes has lived in the shadow of...

December 2011

December 19, 2011

Baptists in an age without safe labels

Journalists have been known to jump to premature conclusions if a denomination has the word...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

Southern Baptists vs. Mormons, again

If Southern Baptists gather for a seminar on what Mormons believe, the odds are good...

September 2011

September 19, 2011

Evangelicals learn to (heart) New York

Pastors have their own brand of insider humor, just like doctors, lawyers, accountants and other...

March 2011

March 21, 2011

Churches late to Facebook party?

A mere three years ago, Diana Davis published a hands-on book for church leaders entitled...

November 2010

November 15, 2010

Rome ponders iMissal app

When it comes to liturgical details, the Vatican has clear guidelines about sacred objects that...

July 2010

July 19, 2010

Symbols in the Texas hills

KERRVILLE, Texas -- The bracelet is both simple and a bit strange, since it consists...

June 2010

June 21, 2010

SBC wrestles with corporate sin

Like most people born and raised in Biloxi, Miss., theologian Russell Moore grew up about...

March 2009

March 09, 2009

Memory eternal: Healer for the healers

Some of the seminarians in the Bible Belt chapel were shaken when Dr. Louis McBurney...

November 2008

November 05, 2008

Hiding behind pulpits

Reporter Louis Moore didn't know much about the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod when he began covering...

September 2008

September 24, 2008

Out the church door

At the last church she attended before dropping out, Julia Duin was not impressed with...

August 2008

August 27, 2008

Heaven, hell and funerals

Anyone who has lived in a minister's house knows that middle-of-the-night telephone calls often bring bad...

June 2008

June 25, 2008

Sex, sin and surveys

It's becoming more and more dangerous for preachers to use the words "sex" and "sin"...

June 07, 2006

Facing the MPAA giant

The Motion Picture Association of America is crystal clear when it describes why its "PG"...

September 2005

September 14, 2005

Why God loves New Orleans

Wherever they go, preachers are asked to stand up and pray.The Rev. Joe McKeever is...

July 2005

July 06, 2005

Did the Disney boycott do anything?

Once upon a time, there was a magic kingdom of family entertainment that was loved...

February 2005

February 09, 2005

Baylor, Bibles, boots and education

Soon after David Solomon arrived at Baylor University in 1960, he realized that one of...

August 2004

August 18, 2004

Beyond the Baptist boycott

It was a cheesy ad slogan sure to raise eyebrows during the summer battle for...

June 2004

June 23, 2004

SBC hits a wall on the right

The resolution never hit the floor of the 2004 Southern Baptist Convention for debate.An effort...

March 2004

March 17, 2004

Baylor, same-sex marriage and ink

Every decade or so Baylor University endures another media storm about Southern Baptists, sex and...

December 2003

December 03, 2003

A Baptist take on St. Nicholas

The bureaucrats charged with turning Russia into a godless utopia had a December dilemma and...

March 2003

March 12, 2003

Postmodern Celtic Baptists

The first thing people do after entering the quiet sanctuary is pause at a table...